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Modern Sounds in Old​-​Time Music

by Greenwood & Burns

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Woodscrew 02:37
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Young Roger 04:24
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Trying Times 04:24
TRYING TIMES Trying times, When you walk to work with the holes in your shoes. There's no breadlines, But you can't afford to drink away the blues, That is, unless you choose. And your mind, Is crushed beneath a months rent or two. It’s almost a crime, That there’s no rug to slip from under you. Sometimes, it feels like a zoo But you have to try, And you'll get by. Count enough nickles, you got a subway ride. Walkin' the line, Because another ticket would be the death of you. Waitin' for that sign, Tired of redefining soon. Time will make circles around you You stay inside, Cuz saving money is a popular thing to do. Surfing through websites, Lookin' for hyperbole in the news. There must be something else to do. Well Don't be shy, Put on a crazy tie, Every night is a chance to make shit up on the fly Well don't be shy, Put on a crazy tie, You gotta try some new things during these trying times.
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Lyrics: There you go There you go again You shouldn’t have stolen that plane From those angry Mexicans There you go There you go again You called yourself a pilot But you never learned to land There you go Your’a crazy crook Flying high For a second look There you go With me in toe Here we go ---------------------------------- There you go Throwin’ bottles at friends You even threw the game For a stack of ben franklins There you go Stealing tips from the bar The only keys you have Are for scraping paint off cars There you go Your'a crazy crook We’re out of fuel And pretty god forsook There you go With me in tow, Aw hell, here I go There I go There I go again Woke up in a stolen car Sitting next to a dead man So I drove Drove to Michigan Pushed that crate in the lake Never spoke of it again There I go I’m a crazy crook Flying lies And pretty god forsook Now how’d I get To be this way? My mind is clay There I go There I go again Shouldn’t have hung out With the wrong kind of friends
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Lyrics: The Aroostook War Fighting Song We are marching on to Madawask, To fight the trespassers; We’ll teach the British how to walk And come off conquerors. We’ll have our land, right good and clear, For all the English say; They shall not cut another log, Nor stay another day. Ye husbands, fathers, brothers and sons Fort Kent needs you to pick up your guns March to the bugle and the fife March up North to the sound of the beating drum. They need not think to have our land, We Yankees can fight well We’ve whipped them twice most manfully, As every child a’can tell. And if the tyrants say one word, A third time we will show How high the Yankee spirit runs, And what our guns can do. Ye husbands, fathers, brothers and sons Presque Aisle needs you to pick up your guns March to the bugle and the fife March up North to the sound of the beating drum. They better much all stay at home, And mind their business there; The way we treated them before, Made all the nations stare. Come on! Brace fellows one and all The red coats ne’er shall say, We Yankees, feared to meet them armed, So gave our land away. Ye husbands, fathers, brothers and sons Frenchville needs you to pick up your guns March to the bugle and the fife March up North to the sound of the beating drum. We’ll feed them well with ball and shot, We’ll cut those red coats down, Before we yield to them a single inch Or the titles to our ground. Onward! My lads so brave and true With o ur country’s right demands With justice and with glory fight For these Aroostook lands! Ye husbands, fathers, brothers and sons Caribou needs you to pick up your guns March to the bugle and the fife March up North to the sound of the beating drum. Ye husbands, fathers, brothers and sons Easton needs you to pick up your guns March to the bugle and the fife March up North to the sound of the beating drum. Ye husbands, fathers, brothers and sons Alagash needs you to pick up your guns March to the bugle and the fife March up North to the sound of the beating drum. Ye husbands, fathers, brothers and sons Van Buren needs you to pick up your guns March to the bugle and the fife March up North and we’ll win this fight
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Sally Ann 02:13
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Dan Greenwood & Jeff Burns began collaborating in March of 2014 with the aim of building arrangements for traditional songs, and Jeff's originals, around a primarily old-time core. Their music is not exactly traditional old-time, however, as the duo incorporates liberal doses of electric amplification along with instrumental and stylistic appropriations from other musical cultures.

The result aspires to be music that speaks to both tradition and modernity, honoring their sources for these songs & ideas, the musicians & archivists who work to preserve them and keep traditional music alive & well, and the visionaries who've brought those traditional musics to pop audiences over the past 50 years and more.

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released January 12, 2015

All music performed by Dan Greenwood and Jeff Burns. That includes banjos, mandolins, gadgets, harps, clarinets, flutes, fifes, drums, cymbals, whistles, washboards, buckets, brushes, basses, washtubs, guitars, shovels, ukes, guiros, and animals.

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Greenwood & Burns make old music for modern times... or maybe modern music for old times.

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